Grace Wilbur Trout moved to a house on the 400 block of Forest Ave. in Oak Park from Chicago with her family in 1903. While in Oak Park she devised and implemented a strategy to attain the right to vote for women. Trout joined the Nineteenth Century Club of Oak Park in 1906. Trout went on to lead the campaign for a new state constitution that guaranteed equal rights for women.

A woman models her marching costume for Chicago's suffrage parade, June The parade was held on June during the Republican National Convention in Chicago. More than suffrage supporters marched during a large rainstorm.

eternallybeautifullyblack: “ The African-American Suffragists History Forgot by Lynn Yaeger [T]hough we may have vague notions of the American women who fought so heroically for the ballot on this side of the Atlantic, they are, in our minds, in our.